Ulrich Kienzle

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Ulrich Kienzle (2017)

Ulrich Kienzle (born May 9, 1936 in Neckargröningen , Ludwigsburg district ; † April 16, 2020 in Wiesbaden ) was a German journalist , publicist and Middle East expert .

Career

After studying political science in Munich and Tübingen (other subjects: German and art history ), Kienzle began in 1963 as a television editor for the evening show at what was then Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR), whose boss he became in 1968 after a trip to Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). There he worked from 1972 to 1974 together with Dagobert Lindlau as editor-in-chief and moderator for the foreign magazine Kompass, which was broadcast jointly with BR . From 1974 to 1977 he was Gerhard Konzelmann's successor ARD correspondent for the Arab world - first based in Beirut , then after the Syrian invasion in the Lebanese civil war from 1976 in Cairo . He then moved to the ARD foreign studio in Pretoria , which he managed until 1980 and which was responsible for the Southern Africa reporting area .

From 1980 to 1990 Kienzle was television editor-in-chief at Radio Bremen . He developed the Buten & Binnen format, which still exists today , but was also occasionally active as an international reporter. During the hostage drama in Gladbeck on August 17, 1988, he was responsible for the TV interview with the main culprit Hans-Jürgen Rösner at the bus stop in Huckelriede, which was later broadcast on ARD . In 1982 Kienzle was one of the first international journalists to report from Beirut on the Sabra and Shatila massacre . In 1990 he moved from Radio Bremen to ZDF , where he headed the main foreign policy department until 1993 and moderated the international journal , among other things . In 1993 he took over the moderation and editorial management of the political magazine Frontal together with Bodo H. Hauser , in which he represented the “left” side of the political spectrum as a counterpart to Hauser. Since 2003 he has been represented with a personal section in the ZDF program WISO : initially under the title Buy with Kienzle, then since 2006 Driving with Kienzle .

Kienzle spoke Arabic and was Vice President of the German-Arab Society .

Ulrich Kienzle died in April 2020 at the age of 83 in Wiesbaden.

Controversy

About four decades apart, Kienzle reported in an interview with media scientist and journalist Lutz Mükke about two particularly controversial political interventions in his professional life: In 1974, shortly after his appointment as ARD correspondent for the Arab world, he refused the personal request of the President of the Federal Intelligence Service Gerhard Wessel from providing information to the German foreign secret service in addition to his journalistic work. In 1977 he saw himself defenseless against another attack on his professional honor: shortly after Kienzle reported about Israel's secret support for the southern Lebanese Maronites in the civil war, Yohanan Meroz , the Israeli ambassador to Germany, accused him in a protest call to the SDR director Hans Bausch the lie. To the dismay of Kienzle, Bausch took over this assessment and then arranged for Emil Obermann, editor-in-chief of SDR, to move to South Africa . Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin publicly confirmed the Israeli support reported by Kienzle six months later.

During and after his time as a foreign correspondent, he met numerous heads of state and government. His interview with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1990 during the occupation of Kuwait , which a few months later led to the Second Gulf War , was particularly prominent but also controversial . In retrospect, Kienzle himself called the familiar shaking of hands with Saddam "one of my most embarrassing moments" after the conversation.

Works

Ulrich Kienzle 2010 as a cabaret artist at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart
  • South Africa. Whites in the wagon castle . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-426-04002-6 .
  • Any questions, Kienzle? Yes, houses! The official German opinion leader . Hofmann & Campe, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-455-11075-4 (together with Bodo H. Hauser ).
  • BlackRedMoney. The official German market leader . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-455-11076-2 (together with Bodo H. Hauser).
  • Total frontal. Sayings and contradictions from 7 TV years . Heyne, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-15530-0 (together with Bodo H. Hauser).
  • Kindly hostile! Live more beautifully and argue in the new millennium . Heyne, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-16497-0 (together with Bodo H. Hauser).
  • Kitchen cabinet. Eating and drinking for the right and left . Heyne, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-18843-8 (together with Bodo H. Hauser).
  • Where did you come from alds asshole? The invention of the Swabian; how he became what he is; an essay . Edition Sagas, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-9812510-9-8 (with audio CD).
  • Farewell to 1001 nights. My attempt to understand the Arabs . Edition Sagas, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812510-7-4 .
  • Ulrich Kienzle and the Seventeen Swabians. A trip to headstrong Germans . Edition Sagas, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812510-4-3 .
  • Deadly Middle East. An orientation for the oriental chaos . With photos by Stefan Nimmesgern . Edition Sagas, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-944660-12-7 .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Kienzle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita on Ulrich Kienzle's personal website, accessed on August 11, 2015
  2. ^ "Frontal": ZDF journalist Bodo Hauser dies. In: Spiegel Online , July 23, 2004.
  3. ^ Andreas Platthaus: Bodo H. Hauser. That little bit more. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine (Online), July 23, 2004.
  4. ^ Farewell to 1001 Nights , Mediummagazin, 03/2011
  5. ^ Board of the German-Arab Society
  6. ↑ Well-known TV journalist Ulrich Kienzle is dead , Focus Online, April 17, 2020, accessed on April 17, 2020
  7. ↑ Bernadette Winter: Ulrich Kienzle died at the age of 83 t-online.de, April 17, 2020, accessed April 17, 2020
  8. ↑ The question of professional ethics. Retrieved April 17, 2020 .
  9. ^ Rupert Neudeck : The question of professional ethics. Review of the book Correspondents in the Cold War by Lutz Mükke. In: Medienkorrespondenz 16/2015 of August 7, 2015
  10. ↑ Ulrich Kienzle: Farewell to 1001 Nights , quoted by Andreas Pflitsch: "Somebody had to go to Cairo" Review in: Qantara.de of March 28, 2012, accessed on August 11, 2015
  11. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  12. ^ Prize winners ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Eduard Rhein Foundation, accessed on August 11, 2015
  13. ↑ Press kit German SME Award 2004 (PDF), Markt Intern website , accessed on August 11, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Kienzle, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Neckargröningen
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2020
Place of death Wiesbaden